Newfoundland SouthCoast Genealogy

Welcome to, Newfoundland's South Coast Genealogy Project

This is only a starting point for researching your family history along Newfoundlands southcoast, to include Burgeo - La Polie, Hermitage, Fortune Bay and Burin. In order for this to work I'll need input from you. I'll attemp to post materials here that may prove useful when they become available to me and time permits. If you have any questions please fell free to e-mail me [email protected] and I'll see what I can do to aquire and post it. If you can provide information that would be appropriate please submit it and it will get posted. Contributer's will be given credit for their submissions.

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Directories and Census

Hutchingsons 1864 directory's

Lovell's 1871 Directory's

McAlpine's 1898 Directory's

McAlpine's 1904 Directory's

1884 Burin - Methodist Cencus

1921 South Coast Census Project moved to Project21

Project 21, The 1921 Census for Newfoundland

South Coast Genealogy Research Fourm, read or place a query here.

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A reference map that may help in finding out where your ancestors came from in England ---

In tracing your ancestory along the southcoast you may find that many of the early settlers were brought here by various merchants from the West County in England. One of the largest of these firms was Robert Newman and Company. To see what affect they had on the settlement of the southcoast read this..

Pay a visit to John Symonds pages in NSW, Australia, John has posted many a quere for people from Newfoundland searching their roots in Englands, West Counties and has a very comprehensive quide to researching in Devon, Dorset, Cornwall and more. Well worth the visit.

Take a look at Theresa Turnbull's Dorset County Records Office Notes. Theresa has found her Newfoundland Roots in her 4g Uncle William SWEETAPPLE, of Gooseberry Island and Gloverton.

Genealogy in Devon

Genealogy in Hampshire

Genealogy in Somerset

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Berkshire, Bristol, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Somerset, and Wiltshire, England.

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Click the anchour to download my personal GEDcom file, if you have a GEDcom file that you'd like to share send it to me in a ZIP format and I'll post it here for you.

Click the anchour to download Lawrence Penney's personal GEDcom file, PENNEY and SIMMS Families from Tacks Beach and Muddy Hole.

Click the anchour to download Wayne Hepditch's personal GEDcom file, HEPDITCH Families from St. Pierre and Lamiline.

Click the anchour to download Phil and Paulette Warnell's personal GEDcom file, Farrell, Hull, Crant, etc. from Great Jervais and the Warnell family from Jeddore, NS.

Click the anchour to download Christy (Flaherty) Brown. this personal GEDcom file for the DOLLIMONT's of Rose Blanche.

The sharing of GEDcom files may be one of the best tools for searching your roots on the internet. It is difficult to post all the names you are researching and allowing the free distribution of your file enables someone to view it and just perhaps they have a connection that could help you. I recommend that the use of a program like Brothers Keeper or Family Tree Maker be used to track your genealogy. They can be found as shareware programs.

George "Pugs" Anderson of Burgeo, taken ca. 1920.
This was sent to me by Louise (Collier) Keene born in Halifax, NS
to Stephen Charles Collier and Emma Jane Guy of Burgeo
Louise is know living in Arzonia

Click the icon to see Colin Howse's picture of Gaultois.

More pictures of Gaultois from Glen Kendell's Picture Gallery.

Take a look at some of our south coast communities.

Pay a visit to the resettled community of Great Jervis as it is today, it may give you an idea why records on the southcoast are difficult to find.

Check here to see what happened on April 1, 1949.

A letter from the South West Coast Development Association re: Rose Blanche Lighthouse Restoration.

A map of the South Coast in GIF format approx. 85K, dated 1767, I am at present restoring it pixel by pixel. Scanned from a phot copy provided me by Chuck Collier. If you'd like a copy in another format, please e-mail me for arrangements.

A panoramic photo of St. Marys' on the Avalon Peninsula by Mike Powers.

Bill Crants' Newfoundland Virtural Photo Album.

General Newfoundland Genealogy Information

If you sincere in searching your family history in Newfoundland, John Holwell has set up the most comprehensive page on the subject of Genealogy in Newfoundland and Labradour.. so why not visit Genealogy in Newfoundland and Labrador

David Leamon's Guide to Genealogical Material in the Newfoundland Collection, St. John's Public Libraries. Updated Nov. 19, 1997 still UNDER CONSTRUCTION

The Newfoundland and Labrador Genealogical Society Site.

Mike Cooper's Avalon Genealogy Project

Tony Parson's Family Names of Newfoundland

Newfoundland and Labrador Genealogy Research Interest Forum.

A Memorial to the Crew of the ill-fated S.S. Newfoundland - 1914.

A Poem dedicated to the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, by Ian Millar.